Stephen Malkmus - Interview - Part 4/7

[deebsboy]

I really like this accoustic set. SM blows me away.

[hollywoodpurplehaze]

to me pavements best work was "brighten the corners" and if you never heard it was suppose to be a Malkmus solo record. s.m. is a legend pavement and jicks material timeless

[stevnricke]

something about weed and a lot of it

[kunluv]

yeah he was

[kunluv]

also nobody is going to swarm the hotel that you're staying at. someone might beat you up who randomly sees you outside of it and doesn't know who you are but that would probably be inspiration for a eponymous new album 'little bitch.'

[Mothersuperior]

cheer up, life's not so bad.

[808pb]

Breathe deeply, kunluv. It'll be all right. He's being sarcastic. U can unbunch yr panties now.

[kunluv]

These people are never actually saying anything...

[kunluv]

Malkmus made this record out of buyers remorse for a new house?

[BenjaminJDickson]

Lmao Can't We Do Both?

Chilling To Stephen Malkmus LP's With A Joint Is ACTUALLY What God Did On The 7th Day.

Fact (Probably)!

P.S. hurkamur1 You Should Do A Bong With Me, It Might Help You To Calm You Down And Stop Hating The World! Bad Energy Dude, Bad Energy...

[nynjahen]

Wow i guess i don't know how to use youtube, but my response was directed toward the hippie fucktard moe354sa whom subsequently removed all of his comments after i dissed him. I love sm and i actually prefer his post pavement work, save slanted. btw i'm really not that angry that guy just really got my goat. bongs are ok but i prefer to vape

[nynjahen]

and i posted these comments using my wifes account

-hurkamur1

[marcusinlondon]

I'm with you on that one exactly. His solo/Jicks stuff is so much better than most of Pavement. Really clear, nutty, fun and with so much 'rock-band-in the garage-groove' essence coming out of every musical idea. I love his stuff.

[TheHumannBee]

His solo/Jicks stuff is better than most of Pavement? What ARE you smoking?

[datsnare]

@marcusinlondon oh god shut up.

[thepratingknave]

Not to be dickish, but if you have such disdain for Stephen, why are you watching this/commenting? I mean, why bother looking it up? I don't know, I don't usually search for things that I know I don't like. You just seem unusually angry, like it's personal somehow.

I'm certainly not saying that you should like him or respect him or anything, really, I'm just confused about the amount of hatred you seem to harbor for him.

[thepratingknave]

And what do you mean indie's dead? People still make music on independent record labels, whether or not it's *good* is inconsequential. It's still technically independent. Now if you're saying that most music coming out today is shit, well, then I agree with you on that. I'm not a fan of this decade. I'd love to have the nineties back. There were so many amazing things happening on a creative level, not least of which involving the music of the time.

[thepratingknave]

Anyway, I'm babbling, so I'll end this here. I just want to make very clear that I am in no way attacking your opinions, because you are of course entitled to them.

[DrDoombot]

I think if you can't find new music that you like, you're not looking hard enough.

[thepratingknave]

I never said that I didn't like any new music. Some of it is really excellent. I just tend to like older music more.

Believe me, I'm always looking *very* hard. I want to have something to look forward to. There is some good stuff out there.

[hurkamur1]

and nobody will listen to it

[hurkamur1]

Wow i checked out your glass pick bullshit. who gives a shit? put out a couple records i'm sure nobody will listen to them.

[hurkamur1]

maybe you should practice playing instead of making bongs.

[marcellduchamp]

You are clueless !!!!! Take a gander at musicians that you "respect" and see what their take is on SM. Bet you'd be surprised to know that Pavement & the subsequent SM & The Jicks run high on the totem of origins of the mid 90's "alternaradiorock" that opened independent record labels up to some of the best stuff we've ever had in music.This comment disses 1/2 the music out today. Check your research & back-checking. Your either too young, un-educated, or have very bad taste, which you can't fix

[nynjahen]

see above comment

[thepratingknave]

He's HIGH on the fact that his acoustic skills are way motherfucking better than he apparently thought. Or whatever.

I mean, wow. What else can I say?

Stephen, pick up that goddamn guitar more often.

Seriously.

DO IT. NOW.

Please? I'm not above begging. I will prostrate myself before you and wash your perfectly formed indie music legend feet with gold dust water from the Yukon. I will grovel till you give in.

You WILL give in.

Or not. Did I forget to say please?

[jjmachuca]

Well, it is MORNING becomes eclectic on a Sunday morning, he might still be hungover.

[blatspanner]

yeah,he's always been a sleepy,low key sort of chap. funny,though, and so gifted.

[jrbromberg]

How come he seems so unhappy in recent interviews? Or is it just me?

[chrisocony]

with all due respect, i think it is you; he seems pretty content and well-adjusted, especially in this clip; I don't know what kind of happiness display you are looking for from a cerebral, wry guy

[Rhym35w1th0range]

He just seems really tired...in this interview anyway.

[NewJerusalum]

He looks happy at the beginning of Malediction.

[LhisesII]

Can you notice how nostalgic his voice turns when he talks about the time with Pavement?

[Lindyhops17]

almost enough to bring a tear to my eye.

[wall875]

The thing about S. Malkmus is that I don't need to read anything, or preview his new material. I just immediately buy it because I know I'm always going to get pure Malkmus. His stuff is consistently SMART. And beyond the droll humor, he actually cares about the music he makes. I mean, how can you go wrong with a song about becoming a pirate? It's on his first solo outing. Check it out.

[andrewtolley]

I aint done a bad song!

[howelldrake]

Coming back to this...to bad none of the interviews on "The Slow Century" could have been as engaging as herein. I don't know how he can dismiss his first solo piece, w/ such beautiful explorations as "Pink India" and "Trojan Curfiew" as "flip." Not to mention the heartfelt "Church on White"

[chrisocony]

So smart, so cool. I see the Lou Reed connection in the vocal style, part talk, part singing; plus just American poets, of a different time.

[howelldrake]

He's so gracious, almost *reverent* of the interviewer...compared to the snot-nosed indie guy he had the rep as being in Pavement. I never thought he was unnecessarily snotty in previous interviews. But, it's almost as if he knows he's come to a place where he's comfortable being who he is, regardless of how hipsters receive him.

[danieldefoe]

My favorite musician. He's a modern day Lou Reed, as far as I'm concerned.

[jowkdd]

how would you liken him to lou reed? i actually always thought so as well, mainly for their sarcastic, emotionally detached lyrics and use of feedback on solos, just wondering what you saw in the connection

[McGuinty1]

they're also both alternately cranky and funny as fuck. Well, SM seems very happy with his solo career, but he still has his highjinks. And that makes me very excited for the eventual/inevitable Pavement reunion. Seeing how much fun Spiral is having with his band (Preston School of Industry), it's possible that the two of them will be able to stand each other long enough for an extended tour and maybe an album...

[bluejester49]

Thanks for uploading! Malkmus is a hero, and as a musician myself it's so cool to hear him talking about writing and recording.